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mainder within a few leagues of the mine. 

 The beam, placed on a waggon and drawn 

 by nineteen mules, passed us on the road. 

 Most sincerely do I hope, and firmly do I 

 believe, that the spirited undertaking of this 

 gentleman will fully answer his purpose, and 

 that his example will be followed by hundreds 

 of others, to the advantage not merely of 

 themselves, but reciprocally to that of the two 

 countries in general. 



On the 4th of July I left Themascaltepec, 

 on my return to Mexico and England, after 

 an absence of little more than seven months, 

 during the greater part of which I had been 

 busily engaged in Mexico, collecting every 

 thing requisite to form the Exhibition now 

 open in the Egyptian Hall, in the hope of 

 showing the British public whatever was most 

 interesting in this extraordinary and almost 

 unknown country. A few hours brought us 

 to my favourite Indian village of St. Miguel. 



